Of those who felt they had the incurable brain disease, 25% reported feeling suicidal in the previous two weeks. CTE is caused by repetitive head impacts.
Former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Frank LeMaster died in 2023, at age 71. Researchers found that he had Stage IV CTE.Beginning in 2017, nearly 2,000 former NFL players participated in a study that sought to explore sensitive, personal terrain: determining how many believed that they had developed a neurodegenerative disease from playing football, and were also experiencing suicidal thoughts.
The newspaper spoke with a dozen of that team’s 22 starters, and with relatives of two who have died, and found that 12 of the 14 developed a range of cognitive issues after retirement — from memory loss and depression, to personality changes and Among players who felt that they had CTE, 37% percent were former offensive or defensive linemen, positions that experience collisions on nearly every play of an NFL game.
In 2011, more than 80 former players sued the NFL in California and Pennsylvania, accusing the league’s leaders of minimizing the risks of repeated brain injuries. The NFL denied those claims. The number of plaintiffs climbed into the thousands, and the cases were consolidated in Philadelphia federal court..
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